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> Similarly, there was one recent feature I was involved in that was universally lauded as being a fun little easter egg, yet wasted several million hours of pr
by detst 16y ago
> Similarly, there was one recent feature I was involved in that was universally lauded as being a fun little easter egg, yet wasted several million hours of productivity worldwide.
Pac-man?
- nostrademons 16y agoYup.
- derefr 16y agoAh, in that case, I should add a third possibility: in any large-enough user population (where the users could theoretically switch to an alternative—not like, say, an enterprise Lotus Notes installation) there will form a small, yet vocal, counterculture that dislikes every change you make to the software, no matter how small. They do this not because it affects their productivity negatively (they have even less of an idea about their individual productivity than you do), but rather because it is a hit to their familiarity, and an easy rallying point to demonstrate their "consumer identity" to others. Facebook has gotten the most unlucky with this kind of problem (I think because Facebook's core 15-25 demographic are the most likely group to protest, riot, and generally shout at things), but Google has it nearly as bad, being the "front page" of the Internet to many.